Subscribe To

13 June, 2013

Orthodox Western Saints for Today

CANTIUS, CANTIAN, CANTIANILLA AND PROTUS, two brothers and their sister, martyred in Aquileia circa A.D. 304, where they had gone with their tutor, Protus.

CRESCENTIAN, a martyr in Sassari in Sardinia, at the same time as SS. Gabinus and Crispulus (30th May) under the Emperor Hadrian, circa A.D. 130.

LUPICINUS, a fifth century bishop of Verona, ancient writings preserved in Verona describe him as 'the most holy, the best of bishops'.

PASCHASIUS, a deacon in Rome who wrote theological works. He reposed circa A.D. 512.

PETRONILLA, a first century(?) virgin in Rome venerated from the earliest times.

WINNOW, MANCUS AND MYRBAD, three Irish Saints who lived in Cornwall, most likely in the sixth century, where churches are dedicated to them.

* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."

Who is John that Theologian?

Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall is a contemporary Orthodox Christian Pastoral and Moral theologian, philosopher, historian and cultural commentator. He has served as a Field Education Supervisor for seminarians, and as both a hospital and disaster response chaplain. In addition, he has run support groups for people with mental illness, and provides pastoral counselling. He has lectured widely and written on pastoral care in disaster, and compiled several service books. His latest work "Orthodox Saints of the British Isles" is the first comprehensive compendium of the Lives of Orthodox saints of the British Isles; it will total four volumes and be followed by a four volume work of the Lives of Orthodox saints of pre-Schism Western Europe. He has a Licentiate in Pastoral Theology and a Doctorate of Ministry in Pastoral Counselling.